So great is the secrecy with which this has been surrounded that I question if any inquiries you could make would enable you to trace him.

My voice, however, can penetrate into places where we cannot enter.

I will take with me my lute, and as we journey I will sing outside the walls of each prison we come to one of the songs which I sang in Palestine.

King Richard is himself a singer and knows my songs as well as myself.

If I sing a verse of some song which I wrote there and which, therefore, would be known only to him, if he hears it he may follow with the next verse, and so enable us to know of his hiding-place." Cuthbert at once saw the advantages which such companionship would bring him, and joyfully accepted the minstrel's offer, agreeing himself to go as serving man to Blondel.